Building Boom in Sunny Isles Beach Meant to Attract Florida Home Loan Borrowers

The competition to lure in future Florida mortgage applications is growing.

There’s a new development in the Tampa Bay housing market. And now reports are coming in that Sunny Isles Beach is going out of its way to become an attractive destination for future owners.

“Things change, we are creating a new, luxurious Sunny Isles Beach,” Mayor Norman Edelcup said.

The Sunny Isles Beach City Commission in December gave the restaurant’s owners, Jerry’s Famous Deli Inc., the go-ahead to level the existing one-story restaurant at 17190 Collins Ave. and build a 15-story mixed-use project that will include an Epicure market, office space and residential units. It’s all an attempt to boost a sagging Florida housing market.

Epicure, owned by the same company, is known for its gourmet foods, an element Edelcup encourages in the new glamorous Sunny Isles Beach.

This just after City Commissioners approved in November a new 32-story, 103-unit building on the east side of Collins Avenue.

”We have come a long way from the two-story motels and corner diners of the past,” Edelcup said.

Katerina Brosda, a Florida home loan broker Associate at Century 21 Oceanfront Realty keeps very busy these days. Most of her clients come from Europe and South America.

“They stay in the fine Hotels and enjoy the Mediterranean flair and beautiful white sandy beaches Sunny Isles Beach offers and they want to not let go! After a couple of days in Sunny Isles Beach, you feel there is something different here; it’s special, it’s chic, it’s clean, it’s relaxing, everything is in walking distance and there is an abundance of fine dining and exclusive shopping.

“We have some of the most elite [Florida condominium] developments anywhere in the country right here in Sunny Isles Beach,” Brosda continued.